Medicine: Jan Keeps His Own

In Hollywood, Md. five weeks ago, an eight-year-old boy named Jan Dockin
was playing on the sidewalk when he fell and struck one of his upper
front teeth (a permanent one) on the pavement. The tooth was knocked
loose at the roots and driven up into the boy's jaw, almost out of
sight. Jan's parents rushed him to a Washington, D.C. dentist, Dr.
Edward J. Slattery.

Dr. Slattery had read scientific reports telling how such injured and
dislocated teeth could be taken out and successfully reimplanted in
their own sockets, and had done it...